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Successfully Facilitating Organizational Change

Michael Couch is featured on HR Watches The Office: Wonderful comedic conflict and HR nightmares up the wazoo.

Michael joins other experts in discussing “the flood of organization issues spewing from NBC’s hit TV series The Office”. The result — an entertaining and enlightening series of podcasts at HR Watches the Office.

Matt Dubno and Michael discuss how recently sold Dunder Mifflin can transition to a new and improved powerhouse and how leaders can effectively play a role during times of change.

 

Pittsburgh Business Radio

Michael Couch discusses strategic talent management, strategy and talent trends in a down economy, and the “gong-able moment” on TECHVIBE with Pittsburgh Technology Council hosts Audrey Russo, President and CEO, and Jonathan Kersting, Director, Visibility Initiatives.


29 minutes

Click Here to download the interview (.mp3 26MB).


 

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Recommended Reading

Employee Communications Guidebook:
The Blueprint for Employee Communications Strategies
Michael Couch, Contributor

Whether it’s recruiting and retaining talent or greening the workplace, this Guidebook will hone your understanding on how you can craft effective messaging to employees. It will also give you the resources you need to streamline all channels of internal communications. Putting employee communications on the backburner during this challenging period is not only foolhardy but a serious misstep that can have damaging repercussions from which your company may never fully recover.

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Exploding the Meeting Myth
An introduction to Compression Planning...
big solutions for complex issues when time is limited.

by Jerry McNellis, Patrick McNellis, Jack Nettles

Most managers instinctively know "what to do." Amazingly few know "how to do." This is a how-to-do book. It's about how to free up people so they can push and create new, winning concepts. It's about the Compression Planning Systems. This process helps leaders recruit and lead teams - turning ideas into practical action faster than they ever thought possible.

 
Making Change Happen One Person at a Time
by Dr Charles Bishop

Describes the theory and practice behind the Human Asset Inventory® and the Human Asset Dashboard™

Dr. Bishop's Book, 'Making Change Happen One Person at a Time,' is one of the top ten books on change in the last 40 years."
Dale G. Lake

 
Competing for Customers and Winning with Value
by Eric Reidenbach and Reg Goeke

This book brings together, for the first time, two very powerful concepts: customer value and competitive planning. Together they create a powerful tool that will generate breakthrough strategies for market dominance, strategies reflected in Value Driven Business Growth.

 
Courageous Training
by Tim Mooney and Robert O Brinkerhoff
  • Shows how training can be made far more effective if trainers adopt a more courageous mindset
  • Offers tools and techniques to execute this new mindset
  • Includes four in-depth case studies showing the results achieved through Courageous Training techniques
 
Dominating Markets with Value
by Eric Reidenbach and Reg Goeke

"Goeke and Reidenbach have done a wonderful job - giving managers the practical tools they need to move beyond talking about customer value, to implementing a value-based business practice - step-by-step."
Ralph Oliva
Executive Director
The Institute for the Study of Business Markets (ISBM), Penn State University

 
Beat the Odds
by Robert A. Rudzki

"Beat the Odds is the playbook every manager should read to be sure of winning beyond the next few quarters."
Lee Iacocca

 

"Michael's hands-on operational and OD experience have taught him what really works to efficiently identify and implement effective strategies and processes. I'm extremely impressed with his ability to keep a group focused and making timely decisions."

Peggy Fayfich
President
HR Leadership Forum of Western PA


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